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“…and DM’s incessant idiocy will all result” in furthering the death knell. You’ll see more comedians mocking them, more lost lawsuits, bigger financial judgements. It may take time, but the end results are inexorable.

1. ““Love this adaptation so much,” Instagram user moelybanks wrote. “Question though, does it make you think twice about Scientology? Both Gilead and Scientology both believe that all outside sources (aka news) are wrong or evil… it’s just very interesting.”

“That’s actually not true at all about Scientology,” Moss responded. “Religious freedom and tolerance and understanding the truth and equal rights for every race, religion and creed are extremely important to me. The most important things to me probably. And so Gilead and THT hit me on a very personal level. Thanks for the interesting question!””

2. “In recent years, she has rarely spoken publicly on the topic, telling The Guardian last year that everyone has the right to their own privacy.

“It is weird for me to be put in the position where I am like, ‘No, I can’t. I don’t really want to talk about this,’ ” she admitted. “You feel kind of like, I am a nice person who likes to talk about stuff. I also get the curiosity. I get the fascination. I become fascinated with things that are none of my business as well. I am just fascinated when someone breaks up with somebody. I want to know all about it. I am very interested in what people are wearing, and all of that kind of thing, but you have a right to your privacy.””

Please forgive the length of this post. It’s been a very long time since I’ve been out and this is my first public “I’m out” post. I owe a big thank you to Leah & Mike. Mike, I always liked you and really missed your friendly face after you disappeared. Your absence was when I started getting curious about where you and Ray and Gillaume were.

It was terrifying, but I left. I lost a lot. Eventually, I started taking my life back. I disposed of the meters, the books, the tapes, the CDs, the course packs, the certificates and anything else related to Scn that I could find. I re-built my life, worked on my self-respect, and my reclaimed my dignity. I’m not a bad person. In some areas, I might even be a little bit awesome sometimes. I’ve made mistakes. Some pretty big, a lot more that are small. Now, I’ve done the taboo things – looked on the net to see what others say about Scn, seen a therapist to help me heal from some Scn experiences, and dabbled in “other practices.”

I’m a past Scientologist and staff member at a Mission. I didn’t arrive in the Sea Org, despite signing a contract. Once signed, I proceeded to cry. A lot. I took that as a sign that I shouldn’t go, so I didn’t. I did, however, spend more years on staff.

When a health issue came up that caused me to be unable to fulfill my 40 hour/week paying job AND the 30+ hours/week at the Mission, they didn’t know what to do with me. Clearly they thought it was MY fault that I was ill. At that point, I believed it was my fault too. That’s what LRH said. I wanted to try to make things work so, I proposed several solutions to fulfilling my contract, but they were all shot down. I was to arrive on post on time and work the standard 30+ hours. A valid health concern was seen as absurd to staff (and to me at the time). Continuing a full Mission schedule was not possible. It was seen as my counter-intention and O/Ws (basically, Scn speak for misdeeds). This meant that my PTSness (Scn for being at the effect of something instead of being cause over it) and I needed to be handled. We tried interviews, sessions, and handling after handling. That wasn’t working. Auditing stopped working. The auditor couldn’t fly my ruds (Scn speak for finding out what’s upsetting a person and helping them feel better). My fault again.

So it was off to Flag for a case check. Who cares if my body and my wallet weren’t up to that? Obviously that was just my PTSness talking. While there, I was told I needed to buy about 10 intensives of auditing. It needed to be done at Flag and nowhere else, because I was apparently so messed up. Ummmm…no. I can’t pay the zillion $ for that, I’m sick, I’m still expected to be back on post in a couple days. I’m feeling crushed and trapped. So, I started to go home. Leaving Flag was a bit of a problem. The receptionist asked me a question and I started to cry. She was trained not to let anyone leave that wasn’t VGIs (Very Good Indicators = basically happy and smiling). So, she grabbed me and wouldn’t let me leave. After blowing smoke up a bunch of people’s butts, eventually, I was able to leave. My trip had simply wasted a couple (few, maybe?) thousand dollars. Unbelievably, I was still devout but knew something needed to change.

I got home, went back to the Msn and nothing is different, except now they’re cranky that I didn’t get “fixed” at Flag. I’m freaked at the (life-long) illness I was just diagnosed with, my church is pissed because I have it (like I needed to deal with that too?!), and I’m feeling lost and alone. So, what do I do? I can’t stay, because I’m not physically able to keep up anymore. I’m afraid if I leave staff that I will lose my paying job (and therefore my health insurance), all my friends, my entire social circle, my roommates, and my whole spiritual belief system. That’s a lot to lose, especially when you’re already really, really scared about being sick.

Many of the people I don’t blame for their actions. They were trying to do their job and save the world, just like I was. Some people were (and I imagine still are) pretty messed up from it. Some people were just a-holes and I can’t fix that. Karma will handle that sooner or later.

What I can do, is be there for people who are still in. I want to tell current Scns/Staff that it’s ok to look, talk and have your own point of view. I believe that you’re smart enough to figure out what is true and what is a lie. I hope you can believe that too. If I remember correctly, somewhere in the St Hat lectures, LRH talked about reading as many books as you an on a new subject to get a well rounded feel for the information. You are exposed to different viewpoints, different gradients, and different experiences. It may be taboo, but there’s a reference to support it. You deserve to see everything and THEN evaluate and decide what you think is true. I waited far, far too long to do that.

Please, believe in yourself enough to make your own decision whether to stay or leave. Nobody else’s opinion matters.

The experiences you went through match at least 1/3 of my friends who got involved with Scientology. You can’t do enough, give enough, or anything to stop Scientology from trying to suck the life out of you. Once out and back in control you’ll find that life is so much more appreciated and rich. But, we couldn’t see that when we were in the web.

Thank you Out n’ About for sharing your experiences with The Cult of Scientology. It is good to greet you. You have gone through so much & being diagnosed with a life long illness after Scientology is no Fun. I too have been in Sea Org many many years ago but have two types of cancer that appeared years later caused by Sea Org life. So we all form this amazing chain whereby the years fly along but we grow stronger in the conviction something is very very Wrong with Scientology. I knew some very dedicated members in the Sea Org, I was one. Until I realized the price a Scientologist pays for coloring outside the lines of in my day Ron now dm, coloring outside the lines of Policy. When Policy becomes Punishment then the true nature of this ” religion ” is dragged into the light. Sending you hugs & love.❤️

Out n About
I am saddened to hear you were treated so terribly! In any other Church parish members would bring you a meal, call and check up on you, offer a ride to Drs Appointments, or slipped you cash to help w bills! The culture within Scientology is so Damaging!
I had no idea sea org members could have paying jobs outside the confines of their “prison”! I as an outsider see it as a prison….hell on earth!

I find it quite interesting that “the organization” is encouraging it’s loyalist to sign their petition to “remove Leah & Mike’s A & E Aftermath Series” from TV.

One might think the “leader of the gang NOT made for you & me”….would be demanding that any & ALL members sign the damn petition, wouldn’t you? I mean after all, IF there are Millions joining everyday, Mega Millions of current members….wouldn’t he demand they come OUT in droves to sign this petition?

Wow wee…..this petition signing is going to put him in a very awkward situation, as in….IF there are only “a few thousand” names on this petition, instead of the “mega million members” that they claim exist….HOW is the COB going to explain THAT one???

Hmmmm…..I think I might have answered my own question…if THEY are forbidden to “use the internet”, just how are these mega million members supposed to find their damned petition in the first place?? Are they going to be dragged in to one of the facilities, kicking & screaming about NOT being “allowed” to view the internet…..because they might find out something is amiss in “the organization”…..OR is the COB & his minions afraid allowing them to sign the petition ON LINE might stir up undue interest in. WHY there is a Anti Aftermath#2 petition in the FIRST place, & that alone might cause the member to surf the internet to find out what the Hell is REALLY going on inside “the organization”.

Ahhhh….seems like the COB has dug one friggin’ hole for himself…..Yes, members…SIGN the anti Aftermath petition….but DO NO look on the internet for information as to WHY Aftermath is on A & E…not once, but twice.

After all, they continually post the statement that “the organization” CHALLENGES ” & then they post a seemingly “smear” text….so are they calling all these former members “Liars”….I guess they’d simply sues the standard “pap”….”these former members are responsible for their OWN condition”…..schheeezzzz…

Now you know where why they have central files. ANYONE who EVER had any contact with Scientology will find their name on that petition. Pity the poor Sea Org folks who have to do that typing. There ought to be a bot that can manufacture names and electronic signatures for such a petition, using input such as local phone books. .

Internet petitions/voting are not reliable. It’s how that British research ship wound up having the name “Boaty McBoatface” picked for it, which I think is cute. Any petition that cannot be audited or have the signatures verified, such as by the provision of personally identifying information like a driver’s license number, should be ignored

I just re-scanned the baby pics and think Siri is the center pic on the top row, the one labeled Raina Hall. It was the photo of her when she was 4 and daddy Tom had just told her he was going to off-load her to the Sea Org when she got to be 6 years old.

I’m an Outsider too! I remember Jonestown I was a child those Image’s are forever Etched in my Mind!
In one aspect I do see similarities. He used his congregants sexually.
Many were sick and old he loved the retirees as he took their social security as payment to live communally.

It seems as if the cherch either doesn’t know that their hate/smear websites have the exact opposite effect on the low-info, never-in folks who’ve been watching Leah and Mike’s series or it doesn’t care that they do. Since the cult has been putting up links to these hate sites all over the place where non-$cilons are going to come across them, it must be the former and not the latter.

Is there really no one left in the cult who’s willing to tell the tiny tyrant just how badly he’s fucking up there!? It sure seems so. If you took a large sample of, say, a thousand low-info, never-in folks who’ve been watching the series and showed them enough of these hate/smear sites for them to get the idea of what they’re all like, then I wonder how many of the 1,000 that lil davey would guess are going to be influenced by them in the way that the cult intends?

My bet there is that he doesn’t even consider such things, because $cn doctrine requires him to continue to Fair Game the cherch’s perceived enemies no matter what. If the result is not what Elron said it should be, then everyone is doing it incorrectly, because Elron could never be wrong…even when it’s so obvious that he was to everyone who’s not in the cherch!

It’s completely insane, but somehow for still-in folks the utter madness of continuing to do something that not only doesn’t work, but that actually hurts your efforts, just doesn’t seem to register for them at a conscious level.

Perhaps we should just be glad these inept Xenu lovers are that clueless and befuddled, otherwise they might be able to garner some support from some of their like-minded affinity groups, like the folks who participated in the Nuremberg-style torch light march in Charlottesville, for example.

The PR attempts by Miscavige and Co. are so predictable and pathetic that I can’t help getting a chuckle when I read them. I don’t think Miscavige has the ability to understand and duplicate how people think and view things in the real world. Its like watching a person wearing blinders trying to play ping pong.

RB Thank you. The hate smear sites that the Cult is busily churning out against Leah, Mike & ultimately any critic of Scientology is so much more smoke,mirrors and distractions trying with every Desparate Thursday’s @ 2:00 pm to right a sinking Scam. The difference between 1979 when I started exploring a suit against them,is today more eyes and minds and hearts are opening and seeing the Lie. Because Scientology is one of the most grandiose lies going in this area. It has become evil & not of the heart at all.Love to You.?⭐️

The size of UDR (Under the Radar) Scientologist public is rapidly growing, that’s for sure. When a cult convinces it’s members that it is above the law of the land, (which LRH instructed his followers to do when they attack critics) then it is time for our secular government to step in to protect it’s citizens from this cult.

When your only arguments involve ‘whinesmear’, you don’t have any arguments.

Aftermath is so going shut off the flow of any new meat into Clamtown. As RB says, not even the faithful minions will put up with sea org life. Eventually, even Eastern Europe and Africa are going to know the truth. I have few hopes for Taiwan, the language barrier is a big hurdle there.

Excellent job of education, Leah and Mike and Mirriam & Saina and all who have appeared on Aftermath. I continue to worship you from afar.

RB, you amaze me with your poignant “cartoons” (I wish I had a better word right now as these are far beyond that). They capture the feeling of the newest $cn saga and IMHO probably represents actual scenarios within that cherch. Thanks for your talented work!

Cute pics. Assuming they are from Scientologists that can only mean that they, being childless themselves, had to screen grab photos from the web to reflect that they are acting like a baby in an adult world. I take any emotion as an improvement for a bubble dweller.

If they had been from WOGs, it would be showing how their living children reacted to the abuses of Mirriam and Saina.

Stephen Hutcheon in one of the previous blogs added this information to his post. I have also signed this petition although I do not have a solid feeling that Internet petitions are taken seriously by the authorities. But it may show how many people, without coercion, think this is an important issue:

“Stephen Hutcheon says
August 18, 2017 at 5:11 am

I have just contributed $100 to make sure this petition gets seen by more people…please consider doing the same (obviously only do what you can afford. thank you)
Mike – I hope you are ok with this i.e. Using your Blog to support the petition. This is not my petition but certainly worth supporting. (I noted it through Indie Scientology on Twitter, via my business Twitter Account and have also retweeted accordingly). Thank you.”

AFAICT it is not possible to download that. Maybe the one who started a petition can do so.

Over on the Underground Bunker yesterday “John P Capitalist” said he had downloaded the full comment list for the petition to ban Aftermath started by some kid.

However, one can comment on a petition and not sign, and vice versa. It’s also possible to comment more than once. And some Bunkeroos, such as myself, have signed (LOL, sorry Mike) the Aftermath petition to be able to spread entheta. (At that moment we hadn’t figured out how to comment without signing.)

Which in fact was a lot of fun. A guy named L. Con Blubbard signed, I put up the link to the big list quite a few times, and even someone posting as “David Miscavige” chimed in to post and tell about the Leah McPherson case.

For details please check out the comments section of yesterday’s Underground Bunker. Some of the comments that got posted to the petition have been put up there as pictures.

You can also create an account at change dot org, check out the petition, the comments, add your own and all that.

It’s honestly not the content of any blog, documentary or tv show that shapes my opinion of Scientology. It’s their response that informs me of who they are and what they’re about. I wrote this letter after watching the season 2 premiere. I’d like to send it to the CoS and their celebrities but I’ll at least share it here.

To the Church of Scientology
As a neutral observer who knows little of Scientology or mike and Leah, I find your response to their claims horrifying. It is as bad or worse as the catholic church’s response to their own allegations of abuse. Pointing this out is not religious bigotry. This is about truth and justice for people who suffer the most vile of violations: sexual abuse of children.

Your response and actions should have been “we take claims of sexual abuse very seriously. We plan on cooperating fully with law enforcement and will be conducting our own extensive investigation into the matter.”

Anything less than that is an effrontery to your community and humanity as a whole.

(Following is a quote from a post I saw on Twitter) “The fact that Saina didn’t tell her friend means absolutely nothing. According to well documented statistics on childhood sexual abuse (London, Brick et al, 2003; Ullman, 2007), it’s estimated that only about 38% of victims disclose the incident(s) to anyone, and of those that do, even fewer are actually reported to the proper authorities. Some never disclose at all, ever.”

Your response and actions should have been ‘we take claims of sexual abuse very seriously. We plan on cooperating fully with law enforcement and will be conducting our own extensive investigation into the matter’.

EXACTLY! That’s the LEAST that they should have said, followed up with an honest offer of help for those two young ladies. Even if they preferred to handle the matter internally with their own justice system (like concentrating on a health-care approach and a community-safety approach as opposed to a punitive approach- which I prefer) as most churches would want to do, it wouldn’t have backfired on them as it did.

These kind of abusive situations can happen at any place and at any group. It is what they group does to deal with it responsibly for the welfare of all parties involved, that makes thee difference. The CofS approached this in a very irresponsible way. They should have issued a public apology to those two ladies even if that apology wasn’t an admission of guilt as such, but more like a “We are here for you” kind of statement.

DM REALLY needs some serious change of PR advisor!! And a heart would be a good idea as well!

“Their responses are priorly etched in stone: ‘Attack.attack.attack’ They know no other way. And Miscavige is himself a criminal (unindicted…so far) and can respond only in criminal ways.”

I hear you, Peter Nortom, but I never lose faith that people can change their ways if approached in the right manner. I am more inclined towards reformation and rehabilitation than towards punitive handlings, and that’s the way that I will approach these things with them. I am interested in reuniting families, not in destroying the church.

As always, Mike and Leah are all over it. Time to take this to the the “Finish Line” I still have one question. Every discussion re: Sea Org member or just a follower, how do these families and Scientology get around the “strict” education and schooling for those under 18? Do they have a boat load of ” adults home schooling all the children. I cannot believe this situation. The word is each member commits 10-14 hrs a day just studying Scientology. Why are the local and state officials not looking into this?

Simple answer: MONEY. scn has billions and will fight and fight and fight to the last dollar using the First Amendment to the Constitution, smear campaigns, private investigators, blackmail, general harassment and anything else they can think of. Leah and Mike are now the vanguard of the battle against scn and it’s in the courtroom of public opinion where they will be conquered…worldwide. Waning stats, waning staff, and DM’s incessant idiocy will all result.

Important Quotes

If the org slumps during this transition period, don't engage in "fund raising"
or "selling postcards" or borrowing money. Just make more income with Scientology.
L Ron Hubbard From HCOPL URGENT ORG PROGRAMMING

"We own a tremendous amount of property. We own a tremendous amount of material and so forth, and it keeps growing.
But that’s not important. When buildings get important to us, for God sakes, some of you born revolutionists will you please blow up central headquarters".
L Ron Hubbard Lecture 31 Dec 1960

"Personal integrity is knowing what you know. What you know is what you know and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed".- LRH from Personal Integrity

"It is necessary to happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists of professing to believe what he does not believe." Thomas Paine

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Communication is the universal solvent” - L Ron Hubbard

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” Thomas Paine

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." William Faulkner

"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis." Dalai Lama